Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Fields v. State (1978), Rice v. State (1979)
170 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McMann v. Richardson · Tollett v. Henderson · Fontaine v. United States · State of Missouri v. Virgil Lewis Turley · State v. Keeble
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A 27.26 movant, in order to be entitled to an evidentiary hearing, must plead facts, not conclusions, which, if true, would entitle him to relief and must show that such factual allegations are not refuted by facts elicited at the guilty plea hearing.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clay · Parsons v. State““. . . plead facts, not conclusions, which, if true, would entitle him to relief and must show that such factual allegations are not refuted by facts elicited at the guilty plea hearing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mainord v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.